> US-Iran Nuclear Stalemate Sustains Sanctions Cascade and Proliferation Risk
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The failure to reach a comprehensive US-Iran nuclear deal within 90 days keeps diplomacy in a low-yield iterative mode while feeding secondary-sanctions pressure on Chinese tech and elevating Iranian nuclear-test risk.
// Cascade Logic
No comprehensive deal → continued inconclusive talks + secondary sanctions cascade on Chinese tech + rising nuclear-test/nonproliferation fracture risk.
// Causal Graph
// Causal Links
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A failure to reach a comprehensive accord keeps both sides in iterative bargaining rather than collapse, sustaining additional negotiation rounds through the year.